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keeping flexed and elevated from the ground. This leg is much 
cooler than the other. 
The animal is placed in a stall; a few minutes later the 
pains seem to subside, and an hour afterwards he is free from 
lameness, rests comfortably, and looks for food. 
At about one o’clock I made a rectal examination and found 
the pulsations entirely absent in the right internal iliac and much 
weaker in the external artery of the same side ; those of the left 
felt healthy. Diagnosis is then made accordingly. 
That same day at two o’clock (he has been in the college about 
four hours) he is brought before the class of students. 
Now that he is cool he seems to be in perfect health. A man 
jumps on his back and he is put to trotting exercise in the street. 
After a few minutes the irregularity of action begins to be de¬ 
tected ; first it is a stiffness of the right leg, then it becomes more 
marked; the abduction of the leg is well evident. Soon the ani¬ 
mal becomes cpiite lame ; and the moment he is returned to the 
hospital, the same symptoms as those presented in the morning, 
are well observed by the students. Rectal examination demon¬ 
strates to them also the condition of the arteries, and all those 
who have examined him can make a similar diagnosis. 
We advise the animal to be destroyed. The owner hesitates, 
doubts probably the correctness of our verdict ; told that we are 
in error, that all the trouble with the animal is a sprain , or cold 
in the loins , he allows the horse to be placed under the care of 
a Yeterinary Surgeon (?) who applies a severe blister upon that 
region. After a few days, sufficient for the application to pro¬ 
duce all its effects, the horse is returned to his owner, said to be 
convalescent. So as to give some exercise, a boy on one afternoon 
is put on his back; he takes him round the block two or three 
times ; but suddenly the horse is taken very ill ; he is brought 
back to his stable, and, we understand, dies at eleven o’clock that 
evening, in the greatest agony, having shown abdominal pains, so 
the owner reports. 
The post mortem was roughly made in the afternoon of the 
following day at the rendering dock, when the animal was already 
in a state of putrefaction. 
